Can Walmart make money at Dada Nexus?
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) wants to counter Kroger’s (NYSE: KR) partnership with Britain’s Ocado Group PLC (LSE: OCDO). Kroger bought 5% of Ocado in 2018.
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Market Mad House
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is Amazon too Big?
Under these circumstances, Amazon could buy both Macy’s and Kroger and still have nearly $20 billion in the bank. To explain, Mr. Market gave Macy’s a market capitalization of $4.61 billion on 26 August 2019. Plus Kroger had a Market cap of $18.46 billion on the same day.
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Is Walgreens losing Money?
However, Walgreens is making less from money from its drugstores. For example, Walgreens reported an operating income of $1.218 billon 31 May 2019, down from $1.518 million three months earlier.
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Boston Dynamics will Market Walking Robots to Industry
The hope at Boston Dynamics is Spot will be the “Android of Robotics.” To clarify, Boston wants to build a cheap, walking robot that will be as a versatile and as popular as Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) mobile-operating system.
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Is Kohl’s Making Money?
Kohl’s is partnering with other brands for survival. To explain, Kohl’s business is being taken by a massive retail platform known as Amazon.com.
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Target Makes Money amidst the Retail Apocalypse
Target will have to up its delivery game dramatically just survive in that retail environment. Consequently, Target will need to spend a lot of money it lacks just to stay competitive.
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Will Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Die this Holiday Season?
The situation is not that bleak for Abercrombie & Fitch because of the clothing market’s decentralized nature. To clarify, there is more than enough market share for Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) to survive.
Notably, Amazon Prime had 95 million subscribers in June 2018 up from 85 million in June 2017, Statista calculates. Thus, Amazon Prime is the fastest growing and most important retail outlet in America.
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A Dive into your Costco (COST) Dividends
Under these circumstances, Costco Wholesale is likely to stop growing. In fact, I think Costco’s revenues are likely to contract soon.
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A Basic Income Hack to Fix the Economy
Capitalism’s greatest challenge is that many people are not profiting from it. The basic income hack can change that by enabling most people to profit from capitalism.
A basic income hack is necessary if capitalism is to survive. I think capitalism is doomed, without radical solutions like the basic income hack.
Additionally, the average person’s method of accumulating wealth; jobs, is disappearing. To demonstrate, Amazon will hire 20,000 fewer temporary workers at its fulfillment centers for the 2018 holiday season Citi Analyst Mark May claims.
Amazon hired 120,000 temporary workers for the 2016 and 2017 holiday seasons, May tells CNBC. However, the Everything Store only plans to hire 100,000 temporary workers this year.
Amazon no longer needs those workers because of robots and automated systems in its fulfillment centers, May theorizes. Notably, 2018 will be the first year Amazon will hire fewer people for the holiday shopping frenzy.
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Is Sprouts Doomed?
Delivery can destroy Sprouts because it keeps customers away from Sprouts where they can see its low prices.
Traditional supermarkets depend heavily from all the spur-of-the moment purchases from shoppers in the store. How many times have you walked into a supermarket to “grab a couple of things” and ended up pushing a full shopping cart out the door?
Online shoppers only get what is on their shopping list, because they are not in the supermarket to get tempted by that extra stuff. That is good for customers’ pocketbooks but bad for Sprouts’ bottom line.
The traditional supermarket is a marketing machine cleverly disguised as a food store. Grocers fill their stores with temptations such as endcaps, free samples, delis, and cafes. The online shopper sees none of that stuff.
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